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Doctor Strange Is Good Because He Sucks - Detail Diatribe
Talking about Dr Strange's Character Arc in his first movie, hinging on the wonderful scene where the Ancient One tells Stephen "It's Not About You".Best scene to one of my favorite superhero movies.-B
Trope Talk: Are We The Baddies?
A stock heroic origin! Wait, what?
City Minutes: Crusader States
*slowly sliding back westward over the course of 500 years*-B
Fables and Folktales: The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon
A totally whimsical and fine folktale where nothing unnerving happens!
History Summarized: The Acropolis!
Big building, lots of marble. Very architecture. Big fan. Wow.-B
Trope Talk: Magical Otherworlds
Party in fantasyland!
History Summarized: Ukraine!
Easily one of the most challenging videos I've ever done, but worth every minute of it.See youtube video for fundraiser details.-B
Misc. Myths: Actaeon
Oh… deer.
Classics Summarized: The Silmarillion!
Incidentally, welcome to April, everybody!
Trope Talk: Cursed Artifacts
For when the real villain was your own nifty accessory all along!
TROPE TALK POLL! 🎉
Thanks for all your great suggestions on yesterday's seasonal update post! I've gone through and picked out a bunch I'm excited to explore (WAY more than can fit on any reasonably-sized poll) but as always, you guys get to choose which ones you'd like to hear about first!-R
SPRING SEASONAL UPDATE!
Spring! Set your clocks back and keep there because it's time for d a y l i g h t.It has been a deliberately quiet start to the year over here at OSP. So in uncharacteristically concise fashion, let me run down what's new and what's coming up next for OSP:First up: poll results from previous seasonal update...
How Historical is Assassin's Creed, Really? - Detail Diatribe.
A new detail diatribe, almost at a record for runtime, whoops.-B
Misc. Myths: The Great Norse Seal Fight
A tantalizing glimpse into the unplumbable depths of lost knowledge and a glimmer of the hilarity found therein
History-Makers: Women Who Made History
In partnership with The Woman Cards we're launching a Kickstarter for a deck of playing cards featuring 13 amazing women from all across time and around the world.So as part historical-primer/part advertisement, this video is a lightning-round of all 13 women in this deck.
Our Kickstarter collab with The Woman Cards is live!
Hey gang, for Women's History Month this year we're running a Kickstarter with The Woman Cards to bring you a deck of 13 playing cards featuring some of history's coolest women.Tomorrow we'll be releasing a video to promote the project and spotlight the 13 figures on the cards, but you can back the proj...
Trope Talk: Love Triangles
Tis the season for overwrought romantic conflicts I guess!
History Re-Summarized: Egypt!
e g y-B
Misc. Myths: The Wrath Of Demeter!
Honestly Tantalus and Sisyphus get all the attention, but Erisichthon probably wins the prize for Sheer Horror
City Minutes: The Roman Empire
Roooooooooome!In case my choice to lead the year with the Pantheon video wasn't enough foreshadowing, let this be exhibit B in what will be a fantastic year of imperial Rome content on the channel. Obviously that's not like, the only thing I'm doing, but I do have lots of great roman topics on the horizon. ...
Trope Talk: Pure Of Heart!
A completely innocuous and not-at-all weirdly loaded concept!
Behind the Scenes: Making Maps out of Marble!
In the spirit of taking it easy this month, today I present you with a fun behind-the-scenes video on how I make my maps.-B
Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan (A Prophecy Done Right) - Detail Diatribe!
I'd say this video's only got five minutes left before it explodes
NEW YEAR'S SEASONAL UPDATE!
Happy New Year everybody! :D It's 2022 and that means we've got a year-end wrap-up and an update on what's coming in the 12 months ahead.VIDEOS:First, a review of what OSP did in 2021: We had 57 videos between us, including 12 Trope Talks, 9 Miscellaneous Myths, 8 Histories Summarized, 6 History Hijinks, 5 ...
Christmas Movie Showdown!
The gang gets together and yells about movies!
History Summarized: Minoan Greece!
ancient ancient greece, even more ancient-er than the usual old ancient greece. now that's ancient.-B
Trope Talk: Ancient Superweapons
Genuinely one of my favorite tropes! Let's talk about why!
New video: Pope Fights!
This video was a topic request from patron Dr Angela J Black!I hope you enjoy this episode of Pope Fights as much as this video enjoyed willing itself into existence.-B
Legends Summarized: Journey to the West (part 9)
And it took me less than a year this time!
THE BIG MERCH SALE BEGINS! *and we fixed the Crowdmade discount, there's a new link to a patreon-only storefront
Hey Patrons! Merch news ahoy! Quick lowdown for you is we've got two sales running Right Now!First, we've got All Our 2021 Enamel Pins Back In Stock! WOOT. And we've got a discount Just For Patrons! Hop on over to Crowdmade.com/osp-patreon and use the password PATREON25 (all caps) to unlock a special storef...
